Bloemen [Book}
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Book about flowers with a later handwritten inscription given to 7 year old Judith de Leeuw during her last meeting with her father in 1942-1943 while in hiding in the Netherlands. Judith, her younger sister Roosje, age 4, and her parents lived in separate hiding places, Judith as placed in 1941 with the Denekamp family and joined by the rest of her family in 1942. There were eventually arrested by the Gestapo. Judith and her sister went sent to Belsen and Theresienstadt concentration camps. Her parents were deported to Sobibor killing center where they were murdered.
overall: Height: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm)
The booklet was donated to the United States Holocaust Museum in 2004 by Judith de Leeuw Schavrien.
17 p.; ill. ;17 cm. Illustrations by Elisabeth Ivanosky. front, flyleaf, handwritten in cursive, blue ink : Dit boelje heb [illegible] van myn udder, toen hij ondergedohen [?] Geist. / Judith